Posts Tagged ‘Norma Jean’

It’s been just over a year now since Georgia based metalcore unit Norma Jean dropped their seventh studio full-length album, ‘Polar Similar’, and to celebrate the anniversary of the record’s release, the band have just unveiled a video to accompany the record’s opening track, ‘I. The Planet’.

Georgia based metalcore kinds Norma Jean have just unveiled a video, directed by Anthony Altamura of Nightmare Film Crew, to accompany their song ‘1,000,000 Watts’, which sees the band along with a family in their secluded country home come face-to-face with a tornado.

Norma Jean first exploded on to the scene in 2002 with the seminal ‘Bless The Martyr, Kiss The Child’; an album which has gathered cult-classic status since its release and is held in high regard by hardcore and metalcore fans the world over. It’s one of those albums that people in their early thirties gush about when they talk about ‘the good old days’. However, original vocalist Josh Scogin left shortly after the release and over the years Norma Jean have had so many line-up changes that there are actually no original members left. Somehow, fourteen years later, ‘Polar Similar’ still manages to feel like a natural progression from their chaotic metalcore roots:

Featuring guest vocals from Coalesce frontman Sean Ingram, the song will feature on Norma Jeans’ highly anticipated seventh studio album ‘Polar Similar’, which will hit virtual and physical shelves on September 9th via Solid State Records. Check it out below:

Metalcore main-stays Norma Jean have announced the forthcoming release of their new LP, titled ‘Polar Similar’. The follow-up to the band’s 2013 effort ‘Wrongdoers’ is set to see a release on September 9th 2016 through Solid State Records.

You can check out the album artwork, full track listing, and a stream for lead single ‘1,000,000 Watts’ below:

If you like your metal aggressive and in your face, then you need to get some Bailer down your throat. The new Irish band are already drawing in similarities to The Dillinger Escape Plan and Norma Jean, despite only starting their career in 2015. We managed to catch up with the band to discuss each track on the record and find out what these songs mean to them.

At the moment, it’s looking like 2016 is going to be a great year in terms of new albums, with a handful of huge bangers already out there and many more undoubted hits confirmed to be hitting out ears in the next few months. It’s also important to look back every so often, and it just turns out that a decade ago in 2006 was a great year for albums too.

Of course there are hundreds, but we filtered together 50 great albums that turn 10-years-old this year to remember those modern classics, accompanied with streams to bring ourselves a massive hit of euphoric nostalgia.

NOTE: These albums may bring intense levels and high frequencies of smiles, jumping, involuntary head nodding/banging and limb movements, and uncontrollable happiness.

Camden Rocks Festival has confirmed that it will be returning on June 4th of this year, with a bill of over two hundred bands hitting a host of different venues across Camden Town. You can view all the bands confirmed so far below: